Cannot create new zpool

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I'm working on creating a ZFS zpool and I'm getting the following error:

# zpool create main_zfs raidz2 /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh /dev/sdi /dev/sdj /dev/sdk /dev/sdl /dev/sdm /dev/sdn /dev/sdo /dev/sdp /dev/sdq -f

the kernel failed to rescan the partition table: 16

cannot label 'sdc': try using parted(8) and then provide a specific slice: -1

I found another post on this subject here, but I can confirm that these disks have never been part of an MD array before.

Here's what I've tried so far:

According to mount, none of these disks are currently mounted (they don't even have a file system anyway).
I've used zpool labelclear /dev/sd[c-q] to erase any ZFS metadata from them.
I've used dd to just zero the disks out.

Here's the dmesg: [2667947.877379] Creating zpool [2667958.300223] sdc: sdc1 sdc9 [2667958.350206] sdc: sdc1 sdc9 — Cameron, Dec 18 '14 at 18:56
No, no reboot after the dd. I actually did get the zpool to create following this guide. I'm still working on figuring out exactly why something like that was necessary here. — Cameron, Dec 18 '14 at 19:28
Why would you create just one vdev ? this will be insanely slow ? — cypromis, Dec 18 '14 at 19:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 18 '14 at 20:06

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Put the -f right after the create.

edited Dec 18 '14 at 20:06

Michael Mrozek

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answered Dec 18 '14 at 19:53

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Cannot create new zpool

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